Wideband balun-LNA with simultaneous output balancing, noise-canceling and distortion-canceling

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1341-1350

  Blaakmeer, Stephan C ^a,b   Klumperink, Eric A M ^a,b   Leenaerts, Domine M W ^a,c   Nauta, Bram ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c NXP SEMICONDUCTORS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; Distortion canceling; Linearity; Low noise; Low noise amplifiers (LNAs); Low power electronics; Noise canceling; Noise cancellation; Wideband LNA; Wideband matching

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; CESIUM; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; STANDARDS;

(+ MOD 2N) OPERATION; ACTIVE BALUN; DEEP SUBMICRON TRANSISTORS; DISTORTION (DEFORMATION); INDUCTORLESS; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIER (LNA); MULTI-STANDARD RADIOS; NOISE FIGURE (NF); WIDEBAND BALUN;

STAGES;

EID: 44649186833     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2008.922736     Document Type: Article

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